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OCHS Student-Made Soda Now in Stores

Knightro Fusion, a cherry-vanilla soda, is now available in Oak Creek at the Howell Avenue Pick 'n Save, Woodman's and Gary's Beer & Liquor.

From the classrooms of to your refrigerator: the student-made Knightro Fusion soda is now available in Oak Creek stores.Β 

As the Journal Sentinel reports, the soda is now available at Pick 'n Save, 8770 S. Howell Ave.; Woodman's, 8131 S. Howell Ave.; and Gary's Beer & Liquor, 9555 S. Howell Ave.

The cherry-vanilla soda is the work of students in Jim Buss's advanced placement chemistry class as well as students of marketing teacher Michael Burden.

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The AP chem students spent six weeks mixing ingredients, conducting taste tests and adjusting the formula. When it was done, they passed it onto Burden's class, which conducted a naming contest, created a bottle label and formulated a marketing plan.

The entire school voted on the soda's name before it in February.

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The school worked with Oak Creek-based Black Bear Soda Company on the project. Black Bear's sales from the soda will go toward scholarships for students, Burden said.

about how the project got started.


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